getting your team to use anything but the default settings is an uphill battle.
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Dustin GetzJan 27 '09 at 17:51

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I hate to start a religious war, but only infidels would check in files with \t instead of spaces.
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Frank SchwietermanAug 4 '09 at 22:59

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When I see code with TAB indentation, there are always some lines with SPACE indentation too: sometimes one presses spacebar automatically to indent a 1 or more spaces, visually aligning the cursor with other code. Mixed tabs & spaces only work with one specific tab size, and backspace will behave inconsistent. Expand to spaces if you want to be sure your code is consistently indented. @steffenj, @Fede The "my DVCS will complain once" argument can be used against implementing any coding standard.
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catchmeifyoutrySep 2 '10 at 0:12

This would be easier to follow if your screenshots weren't overly compressed. Next time you might want to use png rather than jpeg, it is lossless and for screenshots without embedded photos usually ends up smaller than a resasonable quality jpeg. Make whitespace visible using: Edit>Advanced>View White Space or pressing Ctrl+E,Ctrl+S To set the colour, use Tools>Option>Fonts and Colors>Visible White Space.
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Mark BoothMar 24 '10 at 14:45

Thanks @Mark. FreeImageHosting.net isn't doing a great job for me, either. I've edited to state the menu items in the text.
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Jay BazuziMar 27 '10 at 15:29

Instead of opening the form in design mode by default, you can configure VS to open the code editor instead. This is configured by right-clicking on a form in the solution explorer and choosing the "Open with" option. This gives you a dialog that allows you to specify the default option when double-clicking on a file.

In a control's properties, setting GenerateMembers to false for items you don't need (labels, etc). It's not a specifically Visual-Studio thing, more related to the platform, but mixed with the contextual list of objects and functions, it just clears up so much clutter.